You are treating a 17-year-old adolescent girl patient with Type 1 diabetes who has not been properly and regularly injecting herself with insulin. Given your understanding of her underlying metabolic dysregulation in this disease you expect her liver to undergo an increased rate of gluconeogenesis. This metabolic process is the result of secretion of which of the following hormones?

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Glucagon is the hormone that stimulates gluconeogenesis in the liver, especially when insulin levels are low, as in the case of poorly managed Type 1 diabetes. Associated with insulin deficiency in Type 1 diabetes is uncontrolled glucagon secretion. In the absence of injected insulin in this patient, she will have exacerbated responses to the increased glucagon. These responses will include increased hepatic gluconeogenesis.

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